Human Rights First: Human Rights Awards Dinner

Human Rights First: Human Rights Awards Dinner

2001 Human Rights Awards Dinner
Honoring
 * Salma Sobhan of Bangladesh, Amchok Thubten Gyamtso of Tibet, and Francisco de Roux, S.J. of Colombia

Dinner Chairs
 * Tom A. Bernstein, Chelsea Piers Management
 * Craig Cogut, Pegasus Investors, L.P.
 * Daniel Doctoroff, Oak Hill Capital Management
 * William D. Zabel, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Special Guests Source
 * Master of Ceremonies: Charlie Rose
 * Featured Speakers: Kerry Kennedy, Elisa Massimino & Sigourney Weaver

2002 Human Rights Awards Dinner
Honoring
 * Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Dr. Sima Samar, an Afghan doctor

Dinner Chairs
 * None mentioned

Special Guests Source
 * Tom Brokaw, Sigourney Weaver

2003 Human Rights Awards Dinner
Honoring
 * Chinese Dissidents Xu Wenli and Xu Jin
 * Archbishop Pius Ncube
 * Honored for Extraordinary Leadership: Human Rights First President Tom A. Bernstein, and Human Rights First Board Chairman William D. Zabel

Award Presenters Source
 * Mike Posner
 * Tom Brokaw
 * Saad Eddin Ibrahim

2004 Human Rights Awards Dinner
Honoring Dinner Chairs Dinner Co-Chairs Source
 * Mehrangiz Kar and Helen Mack
 * Gail Furman, Robert Joffe and Virginia Joffe
 * Tom A. Bernstein, William D. Zabel

2005 Human Rights Awards Dinner
Honoring
 * Mudawi Ibrahim Adam
 * Ludmilla Alexeeva

Honorary Chair
 * Thomas R. Pickering

Dinner Chairs Dinner Co-Chairs
 * Michael Lacovara, Philip A. Lacovara, Sybil Shainwald
 * Andi Berstein and Tom A. Bernstein, Deborah Miller and William D. Zabel

Host Committee
 * Elsie and Bernie Aidinoff, Kelly and Jay Sugarman, James E. Brumm, Lynda M. Clarizio, Deborah and Craig Cogut, Betsy and Alan D. Cohn, Mitchell and Monica Dolin, Donald F. Donovan and Jennifer Lake, A. Whitney Ellsworth, Edward P. Evans, Leslie Gimbel and Marc Kusnetz, John J. Gibbons, Karen Goodheart, Kerry Kennedy, Helen & Martin Kimmel, Steven J. Kolleeny, Mathilde Krim, Jo Backer Laird, Joann and Robert Todd Lang, Kenneth Lapatine, Steven S. Lash, Mark Lawrence-Apfelbaum, Jill L. Rosenberg, Philip H. Rudolph, Steven H. Schulman, Steven R. Shapiro, Judith E. Siegel-Baum, John S. Siffert, Harold Snyder, Beryl Snyder, James M. Stillwaggon, Trish and George A. Vradenburg, Sigourney Weaver, Basil P. Zirinis III

Dinner Committee Source
 * Mig Boyle, Matthew Dontzin and Ginger Harris, Helen and Peter Haje, Michelle Ores, Llewellyn Wells, Lynn Witkowski

2006 Human Rights Awards Dinner
Honoring Dinner Chairs
 * Damas de Blanco from Cuba
 * Munir and Suciwati from Indonesia
 * Lewis B. Kaden, Vice Chairman & CAO, Citigroup Inc.
 * Ellen O. Kaden, SVP, Law & Government Affairs, Campbell Soup Company

Special Guests Source
 * Meredith Vieira, Sigourney Weaver, Alberto J. Mora